Description: How Nature Works : The Science of Self-Organized Criticality, Paperback by Bak, Per, ISBN 038798738X, ISBN-13 9780387987385, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex systems with a firm mathematical basis. This theory describes how many seemingly desperate aspects of the world, from stock market crashes to mass extinctions, avalanches to solar flares, all share a set of simple, easily described properties. "...a'must read'...Bak writes with such ease and lucidity, and his ideas are so intriguing...essential reading for those interested in complex systems...it will reward a sufficiently skeptical reader." -NATURE "...presents the theory (self-organized criticality) in a form easily absorbed by the non-mathematically inclined reader." -BOSTON BOOK REVIEW "I picture Bak as a kind of scientific musketeer; flamboyant, touchy, full of swagger and ready to join every fray... His book is written with panache. The style is brisk, the content stimulating. I recommend it as a bracing experience." -NEW SCIENTIST
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Book Title: How Nature Works : The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
Number of Pages: Xiii, 212 Pages
Publication Name: How NatureWorks : the Science of Self-Organized Criticality
Language: English
Publisher: Springer New York
Subject: Computer Simulation, General, System Theory, Mathematical Analysis
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 1999
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Author: Per Bak
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Mathematics, Nature, Computers, Science
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
